NVIDIA launching GeForce 9 series next February?

Details are unsurprisingly light on this one, but DigiTimes has it that NVIDIA is gearing up to launch its next-generation GPU just after the Lunar New Year in February 2008. Reportedly, "sources at graphics card makers" have revealed that the GeForce 9 series will include the D9E -- a "high-end product that adopts 65-nanometer manufacturing," supports DirectX 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1 -- and the mid-range D9P, which will supposedly adopt 55-nanometer processing. Apparently, the former will be the first product in the new family, while the latter won't see light until June, but of course, we'd take every ounce of this with a healthy serving of salt for the time being.

[Joey @ Jan 30th 2008 11:37PM]

Guys, forget Crysis, that game was a few to soon. what i want to know is if it'll outperform a certain competitor's somethin-something...im also sick and tired of waiting to build a new PC. Just release so i can chew on something plz plz plz sigh....

[WAWA @ Jan 31st 2008 7:59AM]

I JUST BUY A 9900GTX AND FIND THAT MY OLD FX5500 IS BETTER,WHY?

[Jeff @ May 11th 2008 10:39PM]

i have a few theories, we all know AMD fell behind with the comming of Core architecture, and ever since then, AMD had neen #2, but what if AMD/ATI somehow bought out Nvidia...and made it so that all new graphics cars would ONLY work on AMD CPUs, do you think intel would instantly die, and anouther thing,
why do games have to run on windows, could it be possblee for there to be a "game's only" operating system? sort of like a ps3 or 360, and not have any other functions, and still have lik e DX10 and open GL and all that crap? just no usless junk? maby better performance, like 5 fps or somthing...iunno just dreaming....

Riders Anonymous

[myself @ Feb 13th 2008 9:10AM]

Don't you realise that pc is not intended for gaming, ps3 is. PC cant be fast or it will melt and consumpt more than 1000 watt. Playstation 3 consumpts only 280 watt and is 22 faster than 3.2 ghz cpu.

In pc world there always will be a "better" card/hardware because the developers just waste your pc for nothing so the games look slower and slower to run on your getting old hardware. PC games are written in C++ that means the code is not optimized and is wasted, its the same as to write in visual basic.

PS3 is good for 10-20 years because you CAN'T upgrade it, your pc is only for a 1 year or half.

[Slick_Gecko @ Nov 30th 2007 3:30PM]

I want one!

[dmdallas @ Nov 30th 2007 7:14PM]

I want two!

[Deputy Doffoos @ Nov 30th 2007 8:56PM]

I want free

[David Clark @ Nov 30th 2007 10:33PM]

I'll settle for an 8800, but at a much lower price.

[Kurian @ Dec 1st 2007 12:20AM]

Yes.. After everyone who bought 8800s took it up the ass from nvidia.

[feffrey @ Dec 1st 2007 12:40AM]

and I just bought a 8800 GT.
sigh.......

[lutton @ Nov 30th 2007 3:33PM]

I'm interested in the next SLI chipset. Any word on that yet?

[PhoR11 @ Nov 30th 2007 3:33PM]

I remember reading a couple months ago that they were aiming for a late November 2007 release... /cry

[rzlmlchm009 @ Nov 30th 2007 3:44PM]

Crap! I just bought a GeForce 7 series this year. Now I'm even further behind.

[Joe @ Nov 30th 2007 3:44PM]

Hmmm... 8800GT now or wait?

[Corey @ Nov 30th 2007 3:54PM]

How about wait until the 9-series comes out, and THEN buy an 8800GT? I'd expect a nice price drop around that time.

[EngadgetFanBoi @ Nov 30th 2007 5:18PM]

I have my doubts as to any significant price drop for the 8800 gt's as they are already rather low in price (maybe $50 or less, maybe). The new board will likely be a high-end board priced at $500-$700, so it is in no way competing with the 8800 gt; however, it does compete with a couple of them in SLI.

So that is to say, if you were thinking about picking up a couple of 8800 gt's to run in SLI, your money might be better served waiting a bit and picking up one of those bad boys. This is especially true when considering dx10 games like Crysis cannot run with all the bells and whistles on your 24" 1920x1200 monitors with 2 8800 gt's.

[Wwhat @ Nov 30th 2007 5:18PM]

Geez, that's a bit cheap isn't it? it's not like the current crop is priced that high.
(although if you use american currency you might feel you still can't afford it maybe)

[JohnTitor @ Nov 30th 2007 5:29PM]

nVIDIA does NOT do price drops
everyone's always talking about it but no one seems to realize big price drops never happens
what does happen is the card eventually gets discontinued for a new one

that's the big down fall of SLI is that its good idea but when you're ready for a 2nd card, the price is shitty compared to the newer cards

[mike @ Dec 1st 2007 5:20AM]

@cory
that would actually be kind of dumb, instead he should wait for the 9 series, then the gt will drop in price probably to $150, so then he should use that $150 to get the 9600gt, which will have even better performance than the 8800gt

the next series mid range is usually better than the last series highend, and smarter like DX10.1 vs. DX10, etc.

[k4m1k4z3 @ Dec 1st 2007 4:24PM]

maybe nVIDIA doesn't do price drops, but I am sure you could find tons people selling their 8800s on ebay for a lower price just because they want to get rid of them to upgrade

[makishima @ Nov 30th 2007 3:46PM]

mmm Sounds like building a new comp for myself might be a little closer than i thought ^_^

[japroach @ Nov 30th 2007 5:25PM]

"The 8800 series, codenamed G80, was launched on November 8, 2006"

So thats what 14-15 months? 6000 series to 7000 series was about the same if not a few months less.

[LinuxIdiot @ Nov 30th 2007 3:54PM]

woohoo that means by the time I am ready to build my next tower, hopefully the 8800 series would have gone down in price so I can get more bang for the buck!

[riffrocker134 @ Nov 30th 2007 4:02PM]

I got my laptop with a 7 series and a 32bit Core 2 duo right before the 8 series came out, and there were only 64bit laptop cpus.

[Patuxentbball @ Nov 30th 2007 4:39PM]

Core2Duos are capable of 32bit and 64 bit, it's your flavor of OS that determines what you take advantage of.

New tower build is closer than I thought.

[Matt @ Nov 30th 2007 4:06PM]

I wonder how long after release it will take for Nvidia to write drivers which work for this hardware. Color me jaded but I'm still waiting for custom resolutions for the current set of hardware. I hope the are released with a decent driver set but I wouldn't count on it.

[DarKLorDant @ Nov 30th 2007 4:15PM]

Im kinda glad the new series is coming out soon, this way I can just get myself another 8800 GTX for a fraction of the price, hopefully.

[EngadgetFanBoi @ Nov 30th 2007 5:35PM]

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but how old is the 7900 gtx? Over a year and a half?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127097R

Its launch price was $500 and is currently being sold for $379 for an open box on newegg.

The fact is, companies do not mark down their high end products that much. The 8800 GTX probably won't be marked down that much. Another great example of this kind of pricing is Intel's Extreme processors. The X6800 was launched for $999 and is a 2.93GHz Dual Core "Core 2 Duo" processor. More recently, the E6850 came out, which is a 3.0GHz Dual Core "Core 2 Duo." The E6850 is currently 280 on new egg, while the X6800 is 975 - they have nearly identical performance.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115001
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115028

[Naveed @ Dec 1st 2007 11:08AM]

but of course on the extreme you can mess raise the multipliers

[Contrapositive @ Dec 30th 2007 3:18AM]

My 6800 GT runs Crysis at XP Hacked Very High settings 4xAA 16xAF with 200 FPS running at a resolution of 20x5 (Widescreen, it's nice, I know.).

[Unbangyourmom @ Nov 30th 2007 4:22PM]

I bet it will be call the Geforce 9800Pro

[Ayle @ Nov 30th 2007 5:30PM]

can they really do that?

[Whitey @ Nov 30th 2007 4:24PM]

Jeesus, anyone else think that PC hardware is advancing too fast? It seems only yesterday the 8800 series came out.

[EngadgetFanBoi @ Nov 30th 2007 5:27PM]

Hardware companies are slowly realizing that yearly updates are the most profitable way to go. Some companies that exemplify this strategy are Apple, Intel, and Nvidia.

I do not at all think that PC hardware is moving too fast; if anything, it is moving too slowly. The increasing speed with which these updates are coming spells more improvement for the end user. This is probably most clear with Intel's great advancements in computing which spells faster, smaller, more energy efficient chips, helping power users and mobile users especially.

[Wwhat @ Nov 30th 2007 5:25PM]

Nope, I think saying the next generation will be here in 6 months from now in mid 2008, while the 8 series has been out since 2006 already, isn't exactly rushing generations.
I quote wikipedia (seem correct on this):
"The 8800 series, codenamed G80, was launched on November 8, 2006"

[captain underpants and the bringdown gang @ Dec 2nd 2007 12:41AM]

you should kill yourself (metaphorically of course) for uttering such nonsense.

[/dev/urandom @ Nov 30th 2007 4:32PM]

will it support opengl 3.0?

[Andir3.0 @ Nov 30th 2007 5:14PM]

Good question!

[ethana2 @ Nov 30th 2007 5:42PM]

I hope so.

..but I still just want a coprocessor on a card. I want to use it for

physics via bullet
folding@home
ray tracing and baking in blender
latest dirac and ogg spec encoding/decoding
mixing high definition sound in 3d
parallel makefile .c compilation with gcc

...you know, once all the software catches up. Will this series be what I need, or do I still just stick to my Radeon 9200SE and 2.8 GHz CPU, and keep waiting?
I'm not going to get a quad core. I don't want 4 cisc cores. I want 256 risc/vector cores.

[oranda @ Jan 14th 2008 3:35PM]

@ethana2

Common misconception. Every Intel x86 core since the Pentium Pro/II has been a RISC processor. They still accept CISC instructions, but those instructions are internally broken down into RISC ops and sequenced the same as any other RISC instruction would be. This is actually a lot more efficient than most people realize, as the CISC instructions are more compact and thus take up less space in cache and on the buses, thereby acting as a sort of rudimentary (but effective) data compression, freeing up space and bandwidth for other things.

[paul34 @ Nov 30th 2007 4:37PM]

What happens after the 9 series? A drop of the GeForce name? Eh?

[Ray Brevton @ Nov 30th 2007 4:42PM]

it'll be called x800! Ha!

[Ayle @ Nov 30th 2007 5:38PM]

Or maybe it will be called the g10?

[Demeth @ Nov 30th 2007 6:27PM]

GeForce 10..?

[ethana2 @ Nov 30th 2007 6:57PM]

nVidia GFX (insert name of dog-like creature here)

[Daniel Filip @ Dec 9th 2007 3:20PM]

Gef Vista

[kojo87 @ Nov 30th 2007 4:42PM]

damn. just when i thought AMD was catching up. if AMD can really get a handle on their HD3800 series, and the Ge Force 9 series doesnt suck, the GPU market should get a whole lot more interesting.

im still leaning towards a HD3870 but we'll see how this news plays out.

[Dustin Frazier @ Nov 30th 2007 5:16PM]

Catching up? To what? They are so far behind that their best isn't even on par with a mediocre card from their competition. I don't care which company comes out with it but I am ready for the next enthusiast cards to come out already. I am bored with my ultras and am ready to upgrade. Does it really take more than a year to beat the 8800 series? The current trend of releasing midrange cards that only perform well with no AA and at low resolutions is frustrating. I wish Intel would hurry up and jump into the discrete graphics market to light a fire under Nvidia's butt. Sadly, ATI has proven that they can't do this.

[Wwhat @ Nov 30th 2007 5:27PM]

Meanwhile it seems it's 7 more month before nvidia catches up to include DX10.1 and shaders4.1.
Typical ATI/AMD to be ahead where it doesn't help though isn't it?

[Zeus the God @ Nov 30th 2007 10:38PM]

Dustin, while I'm a die-hard Nvidia fan, ATI is most definitely catching up with the 150-200 dollar HD 3800 series' terrific price performance ratio. Easily smoking the 8600GTS of all clocks and brands (3870 that is) and still being cheaper, ATI has killed that part of the market. If they can release another board for roughly 250 bucks that performs roughly as well as the GT/GTX, then the will have a real competitor with the fact that they have DDR4 cards.